How to avoid excessive sweating in the gym?

[Fitness]

This is little embarassing specially since I am a lady(Not
saying that only men are licensed to sweat) but anyway, I feel
I smell bad during workout. I do wash my clothes regularly,
never wear an unwashed one in any session and my clothes
actually always have a fresh scent before my workout. But
during the workout I sometimes feel I smell. Maybe others
really donot get any smell but I get conscious. Its also not
nice to wear heavy perfume to workout and mild perfumes don't
help in any way. Anybody with good suggestion? Any special
de-odorant or sports cologne etc of help? I know its perfectly
normal to sweat but donot want to smell much that it causes
any problem to others. Thanks in advance if you have any
suggestion.

[Isiafs5]

> I feel I smell bad during workout. I do wash my clothes
> regularly,

I had the same problem all of a sudden on summer. I had a kind
of ammonia smell. My assumption was that washing the clothes
eliminated them as the problem. Wrong.

I know that ammonia smell develops when bacteria grow, so a
time factor is involved. I bought a new t-shirt and discovered
that the smell went away upon the first wearing. My conclusion
was that normal washing was not killing all of the bacteria in
my shirts. The was reinforced when I noted that an unnamed
family member was diluting the detergent for whatever reason.

Here is how I solved the problem:

- Let the stuff air dry if I can't wash it right away
- Let them dry in the sun if possible This is to kill bacteria

- I add baking soda to the wash and let the stuff soak a bit
before starting the cycle.

For me, the above solved the problem.

If you go to the gym with a clean shirt, no bacteria lingering
on the shirt, then the bacteria that develops on the shirt
with sweat will not have time to grow to odor stage during
your workout.

Sling Skate

Buy ALTOIDS!!! Thanks for the support UK.

[That T Wom]

"Isiafs5" <isiafs5@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20020804081537.08560.00001154@mb-fx.aol.com...
> > I feel I smell bad during workout. I do wash my clothes
> > regularly,
>
> I had the same problem all of a sudden on summer. I had a
> kind of ammonia smell. My assumption was that washing the
> clothes eliminated them as the problem. Wrong.
>
> I know that ammonia smell develops when bacteria grow, so a
> time factor is involved. I bought a new t-shirt and
> discovered that the smell went away
upon
> the first wearing. My conclusion was that normal washing was
> not killing all of the bacteria
in my
> shirts. The was reinforced when I noted that an
> unnamed family member was diluting the detergent for
> whatever reason.
>
> Here is how I solved the problem:
>
> - Let the stuff air dry if I can't wash it right away
> - Let them dry in the sun if possible This is to kill
> bacteria
>
> - I add baking soda to the wash and let the stuff soak a bit
> before
starting
> the cycle.
>
> For me, the above solved the problem.
>
> If you go to the gym with a clean shirt, no bacteria
> lingering on the
shirt,
> then the bacteria that develops on the shirt with sweat will
> not have time
to
> grow to odor stage during your workout.
>
>
>
>
>
> Sling Skate
>
> Buy ALTOIDS!!! Thanks for the support UK.
>

Also, if your gym is a place where people go to actually
work-out and not a "meat market" type gym, 99% of the folks
will be too busy working up their own sweat (some *will* stink
to high heaven) to care how *you* smell, should Isiaf's tips
not completely control the problem.

T

[tribalzida]

In news:misc.fitness.aerobic, "That T Woman"
<nospamatAll@nts-online.net> posted on Sun, 4 Aug 2002
07:36:00 -0500:

> Also, if your gym is a place where people go to actually
> work-out and not a "meat market" type gym, 99% of the folks
> will be too busy working up their own sweat (some *will*
> stink to high heaven) to care how *you* smell, should
> Isiaf's tips not completely control the problem.

I would think that eating habits would play a role in body
odor, too. My history teacher taught us that the Native
indians could smell the white man, so the indians were always
able to tell when they had company. He said this was because
the natives had no added salt in their diets. Personally I
find that a little hard to understand because when you hear
about people passing out on the hiking trail, it's usually not
the dehydration that got them, but low sodium content in their
blood. But if both stories are true, then perhaps it's not low
salt that's deadly, but a sudden drop in body sodium that
would happen during a time of profuse sweating.

Sodium by itself is poisonous to the body. Chlorine is also
poisonous to the body. But combine the two and you have an
edible product, supposedly. But too much salt isn't good,
either. Just a quarter of a teaspoon has over 500 milligrams
of sodium, so a teaspoon a day is all you need according to
the RDA. That's really not very much and I'm thinking that
without adding table salt to anything, one might acquire that
much salt anyway.

But that's my rambling for you. I figure that all these diet
supplements that body builders take can cause a BO problem.
Perhaps certain medications can, too. One friend of mine has
piss yellow stains on the armpits and the neck of all his
white shirts and he's on a buttload of medicines. Kind of
nasty, if you ask me.

Damaeus

[That T Wom]

<tribalzidane@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:6a34luk2bkkquh9ffaniilssjp4qcaqd7f@tribal.zidane...
> In news:misc.fitness.aerobic, "That T Woman"
> <nospamatAll@nts-online.net> posted on Sun, 4 Aug 2002
> 07:36:00 -0500:
>
> > Also, if your gym is a place where people go to actually
> > work-out and
not a
> > "meat market" type gym, 99% of the folks will be too busy
> > working up
their
> > own sweat (some *will* stink to high heaven) to care how
> > *you* smell,
should
> > Isiaf's tips not completely control the problem.
>
> I would think that eating habits would play a role in body
> odor, too. My history teacher taught us that the Native
> indians could smell the white
man,
> so the indians were always able to tell when they had
> company. He said
this
> was because the natives had no added salt in their diets.
> Personally I
find
> that a little hard to understand because when you hear
> about people
passing
> out on the hiking trail, it's usually not the dehydration
> that got them,
but
> low sodium content in their blood. But if both stories are
> true, then perhaps it's not low salt that's deadly, but a
> sudden drop in body sodium that would happen during a time
> of profuse sweating.
>
> Sodium by itself is poisonous to the body. Chlorine is also
> poisonous to the body. But combine the two and you have an
> edible product, supposedly. But too much salt isn't good,
> either. Just a quarter of a teaspoon has
over
> 500 milligrams of sodium, so a teaspoon a day is all you
> need according to the RDA. That's really not very much and
> I'm thinking that without adding table salt to anything, one
> might acquire that much salt anyway.
>
> But that's my rambling for you. I figure that all these diet
> supplements that body builders take can cause a BO problem.
> Perhaps certain
medications
> can, too. One friend of mine has piss yellow stains on the
> armpits and
the
> neck of all his white shirts and he's on a buttload of
> medicines. Kind of nasty, if you ask me.
>
> Damaeus

Are you talking about Native Americans or people native to the
subcontinent of India? Both encountered the white man (British
in India). I work at a university with a large population of
foreign students. My encounters with people from India have
always been that when they are fresh "off the boat" here in
America, I can smell them long before I see them. One
gentleman, in particular, although he was nice as anyone could
be, smelled so bad it made my eyes water. After a while on a
western diet, they don't smell any different from the typical
American of any race. Whether they are healthy on a western
diet is a topic for another thread.

T

[tribalzida]

In news:misc.fitness.aerobic, "That T Woman"
<nospamatAll@nts-online.net> posted on Thu, 8 Aug 2002
17:55:55 -0500:

> Are you talking about Native Americans or people native to
> the subcontinent of India? Both encountered the white man
> (British in India). I work at a university with a large
> population of foreign students. My encounters with people
> from India have always been that when they are fresh "off
> the boat" here in America, I can smell them long before I
> see them. One gentleman, in particular, although he was
> nice as anyone could be, smelled so bad it made my eyes
> water. After a while on a western diet, they don't smell
> any different from the typical American of any race.
> Whether they are healthy on a western diet is a topic for
> another thread.

Yes... Those from India smell like cumin and curry powder and
musk. I've been in some of their homes. They all smell like
curry powder.

Damaeus